Foreigner: Foreigner: 10th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)

from TadAD

Cherryh remains one of my favorite science fiction authors for her fascinating portrayals of alien races. The Foreigner series is no exception with the introduction of the atevi-a race of humanoids that is, nonetheless, so different in cultural mind set that the entire premise of the book is that...

from djfoobarmatt

I found this book very interesting as well as compelling. It's interest lies in the way it explores cultural differences between humans and an alien race. Cherryh (who I didn't even know was a woman until after reading the book) develops the alien culture really well and then places her alien cha...

from Pferdina

The first two parts of the book set the stage, relating the history of how humans came to be on the Atevi world. In short, the colony ship Phoenix got lost during a subspace jump, no one knows how or why. At great cost, both in lives and resources, the humans managed to refuel the ship and find a...

from Roylin

I don't read a lot of Sci Fi, so I picked this up to give it a try and enjoyed it a lot. So much I read the other 3 in the first series. The alien race is facinating and the political schemes and plots were all I love. It even had a little romance thrown in. I might read more Scifi.

from SandDune

Several hundred years ago the spaceship Phoenix had discovered itself hopelessly off course and completely lost. Generations later The descendants of its original passengers attempt the first colonisation of the planet of the Atevi, an alien species that are similar to humans in appearance but bu...